International

Communications & Power Industries (CPI) completed the purchase of SATCOM Technologies, the antenna systems business of General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics. The transaction was funded using a new committed debt financing.

A consortium of four U.K. police forces including Hampshire Constabulary, Thames Valley Police, Surrey Police and Sussex Police, operating as the South East Regional Integrated Policing Programme (SERIP), signed a contract with NICE to deploy its digital evidence management solution. SERIP will roll out NICE Investigate to more than 12,000 officers to streamline investigations and address the challenges of growing digital evidence.

Hytera announced it is focused on push-to-talk (PTT) over cellular (PoC) radio market research and development and is committed to driving the industry toward improved technologies, higher quality products and enhanced professionalism.

New market research from SNS Telecom & IT estimates that annual investments in public-safety LTE/5G-ready infrastructure will reach $2 billion by the end of 2020. The number includes dedicated, hybrid commercial-private and secure mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) networks.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) will host its Fifth Mission Critical Services (MCX) Plugtests event remotely from 21 September to 2 October. The event was originally planned to be a face-to-face event in India but was changed to remote testing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, ETSI Project Manager Saurav Arora said during a webinar sponsored by ETSI and TCCA.

CommScope filed patent infringement lawsuits against SOLiD, a manufacturer of distributed antenna systems (DAS) based in South Korea. Two actions were filed, one in the Northern District of Texas and another in the United Kingdom.

The U.K. Emergency Service Network (ESN) reviewed the Telit LM960A18 PCI Express Mini Card (mPCIe) Gigabit LTE module for use by the network. The internet of things (IoT) module can be integrated into handheld devices and wireless routers for gigabit cellular communications.